Quote Originally Posted by RobynDaBank View Post
It's definitely an advantage to NEED AddOns to fix the Job the game's own developers broke and refuse to hotfix: see Ninja Mudras. I get it, Cactbot and AoE telegraphers really dumb down the encounter - honestly, people who use these and then shriek at you for not being an endgame player and still telling them how to play don't have a good leg to stand on - but there really is no denying that plugins can do a LOT that make the game fun and wondrous. There's one that always displays your location next to your World for example, and honestly I'm baffled that's not default. Can just open the Map, I know, but when small micro-problems like this happen it builds up. I've seen GShade and custom-pose screenshots, and I feel envious at times. On the one hand, you have the Cactpot solver. On the other, you have something that actually makes the countdown in-game not as awful as it is. OFC, who can forget the Viera/Hrothgar fixers? The world of plugins is huge, they enrich the game as often as they make it brainless, so if you want to go around angrily shoving the ToS and Yoshida's statements in people's faces, carry on with knowledge.

I encourage anyone wanting to engage in vigilante justice to understand how AddOns work, how open-source they are, and how they go past your average callout bot to better the game, fix where the developers messed up. "Know thy enemy" as is said.
Absolutely agreed. My whole point from the beginning was not against every addon, but specifically those that create an unfair advantage (zoom hack, mechanics announcers / solvers etc.) or create toxicity (DPS meters).

That Ninja issue is all on SE and they should be ashamed that a 3rd party plugin fixes what they refuse to fix. Same goes for Viera and hats. If an addon can fix that, then SE’s claims about “impossibility of a fix due to head model shape” is just pure laziness.

There clearly are QoL addons and blatant cheating addons. I only have a problem with the cheating ones.